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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (767)	3/31/2001 9:39:48 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 924

Please Isaac, stay off the Ludes wouldja? Is Ted Turners son on the board there too? You're gonna go to jail w/o collecting $200. You are an evil criminal.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (767)	3/31/2001 9:40:23 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 924

Please Isaac, stay off the Ludes wouldja? Is Ted Turners son on the board there too? You're gonna go to jail w/o collecting $200. You are an evil criminal. BTW, ISRC and Wall & Braod are going there with you.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (767)	3/31/2001 9:41:15 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 924

New York Hasidic group charged with racketeering By Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) - Fourteen members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish community have been indicted for cheating individuals, banks and insurance companies out of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. According to a 68-count racketeering indictment, unsealed in federal court in White Plains, New York, the defendants were based in the Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, located in Orange County, 40 miles (65 km) northwest of New York. The indictment alleges the group carried out "a myriad" of financial frauds since 1996, including soliciting individuals for bogus lotteries, defrauding banks with counterfeit checks, submitting false death claims to insurance companies and using false information to get tax refunds. Prosecutors alleged the men carried out their schemes by using an "elaborate web of false information" that included individual and corporate false identities, fake Social Security and tax identification numbers. Telephone lines were allegedly routed through a complex telecommunication maze equipped with call forwarding and voice mail systems, and numerous postal and commercial mail boxes. The indictment charged that the profits of the scheme traveled through a network of domestic and international bank accounts. Prosecutors referred to the racketeering enterprise as the "Samet Group" after a key defendant Mordechai Samet, 40, who is charged with 51 counts. Among them are two counts of racketeering that each carry up to 20 years in jail. In one scheme, Samet and four other defendants allegedly defrauded banks by using counterfeit checks totaling more than $6 million. The group allegedly opened commercial bank accounts in the name of bogus businesses and deposited checks into those accounts. The checks allegedly either bore invalid bank routing numbers, forged endorsements or were drawn on the proceeds of other counterfeit checks deposited in other bank accounts. Before the banks discovered the fraud, the group had already transferred the funds out of the accounts, often overseas, leaving the banks unable to recoup their losses. The indictment charges that the scheme netted nearly $2 million. Samet is alleged to have paid premiums on life insurance policies with a total face value of nearly $3 million issued in the names of real and fictitious people with invalid Social Security numbers. He then allegedly submitted false death claims for individuals and obtained about $1.2 million from the scheme. The indictment alleged that state and federal tax authorities were also swindled by the group. In one scheme, some of the defendants filed hundreds of tax returns in real or fictitious names falsely claiming federal earned income tax credit that is meant to benefit low income earners. In an international tax scheme, Samet allegedly obtained hundreds of taxpayer identification numbers for purported citizens of Canada and Israel and used the information along with phony passports to claim hundreds of bogus tax refunds. Losses from this scheme were estimated at more than $4 million. Some of the defendants were also charged with cheating individuals throughout the country by soliciting money for fake lotteries or phony investment schemes. 15:19 03-29-01